Dispersals and genetic adaptation of Bantu-speaking populations in Africa and North America

E Patin, M Lopez, R Grollemund, P Verdu, C Harmant… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Bantu languages are spoken by about 310 million Africans, yet the genetic history of Bantu-
speaking populations remains largely unexplored. We generated genomic data for 1318 …

[PDF][PDF] Genetic ancestry and natural selection drive population differences in immune responses to pathogens

Y Nédélec, J Sanz, G Baharian, ZA Szpiech, A Pacis… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Individuals from different populations vary considerably in their susceptibility to immune-
related diseases. To understand how genetic variation and natural selection contribute to …

[图书][B] Bourgeois dignity: Why economics can't explain the modern world

DN McCloskey - 2010 - books.google.com
The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India
began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and …

Characterizing race/ethnicity and genetic ancestry for 100,000 subjects in the genetic epidemiology research on adult health and aging (GERA) cohort

Y Banda, MN Kvale, TJ Hoffmann, SE Hesselson… - Genetics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Using genome-wide genotypes, we characterized the genetic structure of 103,006
participants in the Kaiser Permanente Northern California multi-ethnic Genetic Epidemiology …

Bayesian inference of ancient human demography from individual genome sequences

I Gronau, MJ Hubisz, B Gulko, CG Danko, A Siepel - Nature genetics, 2011 - nature.com
Whole-genome sequences provide a rich source of information about human evolution.
Here we describe an effort to estimate key evolutionary parameters based on the whole …

[HTML][HTML] What could explain the lower COVID-19 burden in Africa despite considerable circulation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus?

RG Wamai, JL Hirsch, W Van Damme… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The differential spread and impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), causing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), across regions is a major …

The great human expansion

BM Henn, LL Cavalli-Sforza… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Genetic and paleoanthropological evidence is in accord that today's human population is
the result of a great demic (demographic and geographic) expansion that began …

A global view of the genetic basis of Alzheimer disease

C Reitz, MA Pericak-Vance, T Foroud… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The risk of Alzheimer disease (AD) increases with age, family history and informative genetic
variants. Sadly, there is still no cure or means of prevention. As in other complex diseases …

[HTML][HTML] The date of interbreeding between Neandertals and modern humans

S Sankararaman, N Patterson, H Li, S Pääbo, D Reich - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Comparisons of DNA sequences between Neandertals and present-day humans have
shown that Neandertals share more genetic variants with non-Africans than with Africans …

Ancient genomics of modern humans: the first decade

P Skoglund, I Mathieson - Annual review of genomics and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The first decade of ancient genomics has revolutionized the study of human prehistory and
evolution. We review new insights based on prehistoric modern human genomes, including …